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2011-2012 Fellows

Amherst College

Aneeka A. Henderson
University of Illinois, Chicago
English
Dissertation: "Love and Marriage: The Politics of Family in Black Popular Fiction"

Mount Holyoke College

Jennifer R. Corns
CUNY Graduate Center
Philosophy
Dissertation: "Pain is Not a Natural Kind"

Smith College

Seung-Yun Oh
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Economics
Dissertation: "Evolutionary and Institutional Models of the Family Economy"

*at Smith, the fellowship carries the designation of Mendenhall Fellow

Recent Fellows

Amherst College

2010-2011
Alicia Christoff
Princeton University
English
Dissertation: "Novel Feelings"

2009-2010
Jonathan T. Chow
University of California Berkeley
Political Science
Dissertation: "Religion, Politics and Sex -- Contesting Catholic Doctrine and International Family Planning Norms in the Philippines"
Current Position: Karl Loewenstein Fellow, Amherst College

2008-2009
Nadia Guessous
Columbia University
Anthropology
Dissertation: "Aversions of Modernity: The 'Problem' of Tradition and Religion in Leftist Feminist Thought in Contemporary Morocco"
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University

2007-2008
Arum Park
University of North Carolina
Classics
Dissertation: "Truth, Lies, and the Divine in Pindar"
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington & Lee University

Hampshire College

2009-2010
Smita Ramnarain
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Economics
Dissertation: "Gender, Livelihoods and Survival in Post-Conflict Rural Economies: The Case of Mid-Western Nepal"
Current Position: Doctoral Candidate, University of Massachusetts

2008-2009
Jeannette Marianne Elizabeth Lee
Brown University
English
Dissertation: "Modernity's Black Others: The Tragedy of the Late Twentieth Century"
Current Position: English Teacher, Cambridge School of Weston

2007-2008
Sepideh Bajracharya
Harvard University
Anthropology
Dissertation: "A County of Hearsay and Rumor: King, Strongmen, and Rumor in the Urban Nepali Political Imaginary"
Current Position: Assistant Professor/Post-Doc, University of Michigan

Mount Holyoke College

2010-2011
Leigh-Anne Francis
Rutgers
History
Dissertation: "Burning Down the Cage: African American Women's Prison Communities in Auburn NY 1893-1930"

2009-2010
Reighan A. Gillam
Cornell University
Anthropology
Dissertation: "The Revolution Will be Televised: Afro-Brazilian Media Production in Sao Paulo, Brazil"
Current Position: Doctoral Candidate, Cornell University

2008-2009
Terrence Richard Blackman
The Graduate School, CUNY
Mathematics
Dissertation: "On the Arithmetic and Geometry of Arithmetic Fuchsian Groups"
Current Position: Lecturer, Medgar Evers College, CUNY

2007-2008
Melissa Madera
Binghamton University
History
Dissertation: "Dictating Motherhood: Public Health and Modernization in Trujillo's Dominican Republic, 193-1961"
Current Position: Doctoral Candidate, Binghamton University

Smith College

2010-2011
*Andrea Nicole King
University of California Davis
History
Dissertation: "Womanhood Revoked: African American Women, Respectability and Vice in San Francisco 1863-1941"

2009-2010
Gloria Melissa Garcia
Yale University
American Studies
Dissertation: "Visual Routes of Memory: Contemporary Representations of Violence in the Americas, 1980-2005"
Current Position: Visiting Lecturer, Smith College

2008-2009
Maria C. Ramos
University of Maryland
English
Dissertation: "Spain in Twentieth-Century African American Travel Literature"
Current Position: Professor, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College

2007-2008
Terza Silva Lima-Neves
Clark Atlanta University
Government
Dissertation: "Sodade: Cape Verdean Communities in the U.S. and Their Contribution to Cape Verde's Development"
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Johnson C. Smith University

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